William Shakespeare Quotes
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A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
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Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King.
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Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.
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I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.
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Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time
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Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?
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He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
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I am sure care's an enemy to life.
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The bay-trees in our country are all withered, And meteors fright the fixèd stars of heaven. The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth, And lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change. Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap; The one in fear to lose what they enjoy, The other to enjoy by rage and war. These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
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I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.
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He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
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Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.
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O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.
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O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
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He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
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O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.
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Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.
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ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: The time and my intents are savage-wild, More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.
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Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
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When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
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Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.
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Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young.
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Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.